3 movies that eerily predicted this crazy election

From Donald Trump's reality-TV-like presidential bid and frontrunner status to Bernie Sanders' hopes to ride the "revolution" of the youth vote to the White House, it's been full of surprises.

This got us thinking about a few movies that were entertainingly fictional, at the time, in their Hollywood imagining of the Washington landscape. But now you can't help finding parallels to the election we're witnessing.

Let's look back on three (along with one TV show that never fails to call it).

"Bulworth" (1998)

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The socialist platform Sanders is running on brings to mind similarities to California Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth, played by Warren Beatty, in "Bulworth."

Granted, Sanders didn't go on a drug-fueled bender or hire an assassin to kill him, like Bulworth did. But what Beatty wanted to profile in the movie was a politician who was antiestablishment, something that has made many flock to Sanders. And his unapologetic way of calling it like he sees it has connections to the rise of both Sanders and Trump.

"A Face in the Crowd" (1957)

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Elia Kazan's classic stars Andy Griffith as Arkansas drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, who becomes an overnight radio sensation with his humor, charm, and commentary on the day's events that the "good ol' boy" can understand.

Soon, with a syndicated TV show, he becomes as powerful as the politicians who come to him pleading for his support. That group includes a senator running for president, whom Rhodes attaches himself to with grand hopes of being "Secretary of National Morale," leading his listeners (or "flock" as he calls them) until he's even possibly the most powerful man in the country one day.

It's impossible now not to see the similarities between Rhodes and Trump: Two media-savvy men who are searching for the ultimate political prize.

"Citizen Kane" (1941)

Trump can also be seen in the rise of Charles Foster Kane, the wealthy newspaper publisher who has a failed attempt to run for New York governor. Though much of Kane, played by Orson Welles, is based on the life and career of William Randolph Heart, the wealthy, ego-driven businessman attempting to enter politics fits perfectly with what Trump is currently doing.

And looking forward ...

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"The Simpsons" may have topped everyone if Trump actually ends up as president. In the show's "Bart to the Future" episode in 2000, Lisa becomes president and talks about dealing with the "budget crunch" left by former President Trump.

Looking back on the episode, "The Simpsons" writer Dan Greaney told The Hollywood Reporter that the joke was "a warning to America."

You can also look at it another way, if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency: The episode did predict the first female president.